Social Justice Minor

Requirements for the Minor

Required Course

Introduction to Social Justice

A capstone experience

Students will have some experience with social justice issues in a practical, community-based setting. A variety of experiences can count for this requirement, including Shepherd internships, academic internships, Community-Based Learning classes, Bonner service, or other experiences approved by the Social Justice committee.

During their senior year, students will be asked to analyze that experience before the committee in light of their study of social justice. This analysis will take place in the spring term before members of the committee, either in a RICE presentation, another academic setting, or a special meeting of the Social Justice Committee.

Electives

Five courses from the following lists:

(Students wishing to understand how social justice could work in relation to particular forms of difference in society may be helped by seeing several related courses listed. The minor does not require students to specialize in any track; these lists are simply meant to help students already interested in some particular areas to see related offerings. Courses may be taken as electives only if not taken to fulfill another requirement of the minor.)

Education

EDU 265	Education Policy and Social Change	3
EDU 295	Global Perspectives on Education	3
EDU 320	Education and Incarceration	3

Environment

ECO 355	Environmental Economics	3
ENS 210	Introduction to Environmental Studies	3
ENS 310/IST 372	Environmental Justice	3
ENS 430	Human Dimensions of Climate Change	3
HIS 361	American Environmental History	3
SOC 385	Sustainable Communities	3
SOC 386	Sociology of Food and Agriculture	3

Gender

ANT 333	Woman, Body, Culture	3
HIS 375	History of Gender in the U.S.	3
PHI 381	Feminism and Philosophy	3
POL 335	Gender and Politics	3
POL 351	Gender and Development	3
REL 380	Gender and Sexuality in Islam	3

International

ANT 322	Anthropology of Globalization	3
HIS 352	Modern Africa	3
HIS 433	Religion & Politics in Eastern Africa	3
LAS 370	Brazil's Racial Paradise: Myth or Reality	3
POL 120	Political Ideologies & Issues	3
POL 371	Political Economy of Development	3
SPA 364	Afro-Hispanic Identity: Race, Nation and the American African Diaspora	3
SPA 370	Latin American Colonial Literature	3

Race and Ethnicity

ANT 335/SOC 320	Race and Ethnicity	3
ARH 390	Race, Photography, and America	3
ENG 270	African American Literature	3
MUS 215/AAS 210	Music and Culture of the African Diaspora	3
PHI 353	Philosophical Discussions on Ethnicity and Race: Blackness and Latinidad	3
POL 339	Race, Religion and Politics	3
PSY 385	Psychology of Race and Ethnicity	3
SOC 323	Race and Migration	3

Wealth and Poverty

ECO 405	Labor Economics and Public Policy	3
SOC 120	Social Structure	3
SOC 210	Social Welfare: Social Workers, Activists, Bureaucrats	3

NOTES:

Students should take courses from at least three different disciplines, not counting SLJ 210 and SLJ 350.
At least 3 of those must be 300-level or higher.
Upon program committee approval, additional courses may be added to the list of courses fulfilling minor requirements.
Because some of the courses listed below have prerequisites, and several courses are not offered regularly or are offered only once every two years, students are encouraged to consult with a program committee member early on to discuss course offering schedules and options for an emphasis in the minor.

ANT 305/SOC 305	Research Methods	3
ARH 395	Art and Social Justice	3
ECO 352	Policy Analysis in Our Community	3
ENG 374	Unmaking Asian America	3
ENG 385	Postcolonial Literature of Resistance	3
PHI 171	An Introduction to Ethical Thinking	3
POL 205	Introduction to Political Analysis	3
POL 321	Civil Liberties	3
POL 332	Public Policy	3
POL 355	Policies of Mass Incarceration	3
PSY 205	Introduction to Research Methods	3
REL 381	Shari’a Justice: Visions of Rights and Responsibilities in Islam	3
SOC 315	Race, Class and Gender	3
SOC 321	The Happy Society	3
SOC 375	Sociology of Health and Illness	3
SOC 395	Social Movements	3